Cisco has recently enhanced its integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to facilitate improved visibility and troubleshooting of application availability issues within multicloud environments. This upgrade centers around container security technology obtained through Cisco’s acquisition of Isovalent.
Isovalent is recognized for co-developing the eBPF (extended Berkeley packet filter) technology, a cutting-edge open-source Linux kernel feature that enables secure program execution in a sandbox environment. This allows users to implement networking, security, and observability capabilities without needing to alter kernel source code or navigate complex network overlays. Isovalent also helps run Cilium, an open-source project that enhances networking and security features within Kubernetes environments.
The latest upgrade integrates Isovalent Enterprise, which adds networking and security features, with AWS. This integration funnels networking telemetry straight into Amazon CloudWatch, a service that provides visibility into hybrid network connections between AWS and on-premises infrastructures.
According to Cisco’s Tom Gillis, senior vice president of the Security Business Group, the new integrations will allow workload data to be correlated with network performance metrics in AWS. This information can also be sent to Splunk for creating comprehensive dashboards that combine metrics from both on-premises and cloud environments, enhancing threat detection and policy enforcement.
For Kubernetes users, particularly those leveraging AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, the eBPF-based Cilium offers kernel-level visibility. Detailed telemetry data about network connections is gathered every time a process interacts with files or creates network links.
These advancements provide networking teams the capability to access deep insights into process-level activities across workloads. This facilitates immediate monitoring of network performance, visualization of application paths, and swift troubleshootingâtranslating what previously required days of work into mere minutes.
Cisco and AWS have been collaborating on technology integration over recent years to streamline cloud resource management. Moreover, Cisco has launched a new product called Cloud Insights, aimed at improving visibility into cloud infrastructure and application performance, and has also linked its ThousandEyes platform with AWS to enhance workload monitoring and the visibility of Internet performance events affecting cloud operations.
This fortified partnership continues to align efforts in optimizing resource management for enterprises operating within hybrid and multicloud networks.
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